![]() ![]() What next - all English as a first language speakers must speak like the English royal family? Bad luck if you're from Boston, Brisbane or Bournmouth! So both are correct, unless you are looking in a British dictionary - and probably one from the same well known organisation who rewrote the concise encyclopaedia of Irish history to suit the British! The pronunciation is a variation and not wrong. To say 'aitch' is wrong and 'haitch' is correct or vice versa appears to me to be a form of bullying. ![]() But not sure about this connection - would be good if someone could throw some light on this. I do wonder if the origin of the difference in the pronunciation of 'h' goes back to the fact that in the Irish language 'h' is usually a second aspirated consonant. This would I assume be vice versa for those raised to say 'aitch'. ![]() It's just not natural to say 'aitch' instead of 'haitch'. How to pronounce H in British English 23,523 views 114 Dislike Share Save Collins A-Z 206K subscribers This video shows you how to pronounce H in British English. You may as well say to me that from now on I must write left-handed rather than right-handed. For a while I started to pronounce 'h' as 'aitch' just to appease the pro-British police, but each time I did so I felt like such a fraud and a traitor to my background. It is a shibboleth, a way of distinguishing Catholic from Protestant. I was educated in a Catholic school (by both Australian and Irish nuns) and we were told, in no uncertain terms, to NEVER pronounce 'h' as 'aitch' but rather as 'haitch'.
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